“ War is a blessing compared with national degradation. ”
It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess and effects they can not produce.
~ Andrew Jackson
One man with courage makes a majority.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
